PROVIDENCE – Cingular today announced the rollout of its 3G wireless broadband service in greater Providence.
“We’re giving customers the ability to securely access information and applications at broadband speeds in the office, on the road or at home,” said Steve Krom, vice president and general manager for Cingular in New England. “With our 3G service, almost any spot in northern Rhode Island is a hot spot.”
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The company said its 3G coverage area extends from Pawtucket to North Smithfield in the north, from Barrington to Warwick and east Coventry in the south, and includes all of Interstate 295 and Routes 10 and 146. Specifically listed as covered by the service were North Smithfield, Woonsocket, Cumberland, Smithfield, Lincoln, Central Falls, Pawtucket, Gloucester, Scituate, Johnston, North Providence, Providence, East Providence, Cranston, Warwick, Barrington, Coventry and West Warwick.
The broadband service not only gives wireless customers access to advanced services, such as viewing video clips through CingularVideo, but also helps existing services to run faster. And the company’s LaptopConnect allows customers to use their laptops to access the Internet or e-mail, download large files and attachments or run business applications at average dowload speeds of 400 to 700 bps (kilobits per second), with bursts to more than a megabit per second.
Cingular says its 3G network is the first widely available service in the world to use High Speed Downlink Packet Access technology. HSDPA is the high-speed evolution of GSM/EDGE (Global System for Mobile Communication/Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution), which shares a common core network. GSM is the world’s most popular wireless technology, used by more than one billion people in 210 countries.
AT&T Inc.’s Cingular network in New England covers about 62,000 square miles and more than 13.6 million people. Across the region, Cingular employs more than 700 people; its products are available to New England customers at about 800 retail outlets, including 80 company-owned stores. Additional information about AT&T, its subsidiaries and affiliates and their products and services is available at www.att.com.
